Lil Wayne Arrested on Gun Charge

It's been almost a month since we last heard from Lil Wayne, which usually means he has another 15 or so mixtapes ready to hit the world wide web at any moment.

But this time, he has wandered back into the public eye simply to sustain the clichĂŠ of the gun-toting rapper, as he was arrested in Manhattan a little before midnight last night (Sunday, July 22) on a criminal gun possession charge, according to a WNBC.com news story.

Apparently, Lil Wayne was arrested after police saw him smoking weed (shocka!) with another man and found a .40-caliber pistol on Wayne's person.

All other information regarding the arrest is unknown at this time, but according to the same report, a separate incident about an hour earlier found Ja Rule arrested on a similar charge. And if there's any career a rapper wants to model his own after, it's Ja Rule's.